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This could be a great exposure for ERP for you! Find the article with that stat and bookmark it. Once a day, read it. As you do: do nothing to neutralize, change, cancel out, or get rid of any intrusive thoughts and anxieties that pop up. With each new thought, just allow it to be there. Accept that it’s happening, ie “I’m having doubts about whether I’ll act out my fears,” and then just sit with it. Hold that and feel it without doing anything to make yourself feel better or distracted or safer. Just sit. And let it dissipate and leave on its own. We often try so hard to run from doubt and fear. But if we just take the time to feel it, it often leaves on its own.
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I saw that one a while back 😂 it was indeed terrifying. But once I accepted that thought, that fact as maybe applying to me, maybe not, accepting the uncertainty that I may or may not do it, then my anxiety eventually fell away. Feel that panic and wait for it to pass and resist compulsions. And when it comes back it will be less and less!
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Thank all of you!! After reading so many great things on that particular article, it (ironically) ended with a very scary stat, I've never really felt much depression (as far as I know) but have dealt with numerous types of anxiety my whole life, the whole harm ocd occurred after listening to some music by Kurt Cobain and watching some horrible 9/11 videos on youtube a few years ago, the suicidal/harm OCD went away on its own for a couple of years but I suddenly started having the thoughts again long hours at a job while drunking caffeine energy drinks everyday to stay alert at work.
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Bruh that's my theme too! It sucks :) but what ur doing (ive never really been depressed) etc that is trying to disprove ur ocd and ruminating in the likelihood of it. You may be depressed. You may not. Accept you may be suicidal, accepf the anxiety that will come with it!
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Thank you so much!!
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This might contain triggering content, but I'm also wondering if others have dealt with this similar thought, and if so, how to deal with it? Overall, I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm able to eat again, which I hadn't been able to do because of how much anxiety I'd been experiencing. I'm spending time around loved ones and not just rotting in my room, and I've been able to wake up without immediately being bombarded by intrusive thoughts. When things first got really bad, I'd wake my mom up every night for reassurance, but I haven't done that in a while either. I'm really proud of myself, but there's still this nagging thought in my mind... While looking through others posts on here, hoping to find advice that'd fit my situation, I ended up making things worse. Someone mentioned how they had a fear that they'd purposely search for illegal content (related to POCD). I panicked, and "what ifs" flooded my thoughts. "What if the intrusive thoughts affect who I am as a person, and I do that?" I'm terrified that I'll search for those things, which I know means I wouldn't do it. But then, another person on here said they'd actually looked for those things, and that freaked me out even more. Does that mean it's possible for that to happen to me? I don't want to do that, but I keep having intrusive thoughts surrounding it. I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm just... stuck. I don't know what to do. I've spoken with other people who have the same fears, but how do I manage this? It's not something I've even thought about before seeing those posts. I've been practicing accepting the uncertainty, but I'm really struggling with this one. I hate this. This morning, I woke up, and the intrusive thoughts were back. It's just disheartening.
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I was scrolling on here and now I’m having a panic attack. Someone posted resources and one of them was a NOCD article and I thought that was so great. I clicked on it because I like learning about this disorder and I love NOCD’s resources. But I read that one of the compulsions for pocd is watching cp? I thought that wasn’t a thing with POCD. I literally cannot breathe because I feel like this thing is now possible and I cant calm down. That was the first time I’ve ever seen that stated as a compulsion. I feel like I’m dying. What triggered my spiral in the first place was months ago someone contacted me and told me they watched it but claimed OCD and I felt absolutely horrified. I deleted my account and removed that person entirely. I am freaking out so bad I really can’t seem to breathe right now
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I shouldn’t have done this (trigger trigger trigger!!) So about a month ago..maybe I watched this video (as a compulsion to prove to myself) The video was called “interview with a p3d0” And basically it was what it says, I watched or more like listened to half of it…after I was disgusted by the person, but now all I can think of is every little thing I do, I feel as if tho I’m monitoring every thought/moment and feeling I have it’s torturous and I hate it..I feel disgusting, the person in the video has empathy and sympathy and had those feelings yk, I can’t explain it you’d have to watch the video yourself but please don’t it will ruin your journey…I feel more hopeless then before, my OCD is telling me so many things trying to convince me things that Ik aren’t true, I’m just really scared I don’t want to be that person I want to be a good cousin and person to my family, I’m sick of my head and myself, I’m so tired that sometimes I can’t even think straight, my head is always in pain and idek how to help myself..compulsions have been becoming more and more exhausting… I need advice or even someone to relate to, I understand I shouldn’t have done what I did but idk how to forget it.. I had made this post already but when someone replied I couldn’t see it for some reason so I’m uploading it again
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